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  • Channel Chat: Low-cost network performance services

    With the economy still troubling many of your customers, they need network performance services that can improve network efficiency without breaking the bank. In this edition of Channel Chat, we ta...

  • Choose greener data center networking gear

    Choosing energy-efficient or green networking and IT gear can vitally affect your data center's environmental impact and cost of operation. Learn about environmental and cost savings benefits of ch...

  • Offering green networking services

    Offering green IT services can prove to be lucrative in these environmentally conscious times. Learn how to offer green networking and other energy-efficient IT services, including understanding gr...

  • Router and switch upgrades: Five reasons your customer

    Mid recession, customers are avoiding investment in even basic router and switch upgrades, but one surefire way to convince them is long-term savings that will outweigh investment.

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  • Choose greener data center networking gear

    Choosing energy-efficient or green networking and IT gear can vitally affect your data center's environmental impact and cost of operation. Learn about environmental and cost savings benefits of choosing energy-efficient networking and IT hardware.  Book Chapter

  • Green IT tutorial: Offering green networking services

    Offering green IT services can prove to be lucrative in these environmentally conscious times. Learn how to offer green networking and other energy-efficient IT services, including understanding green networking technology, navigating the green IT ma...  Tutorial

  • Network design checklist: Six factors to consider when designing LANs

    Designing a local area network from scratch is the project most consultants dream of. When it finally lands in your inbox, do you know where to start? This checklist of six potential design issues will help ensure your LAN project is a success.  Channel Checklist

  • How will the network monitoring be conducted?

    Understand the role that network monitoring plays in ensuring the reliability of the network you design. Learn best practices for real-time monitoring and historical monitoring.  FAQ

  • What is the client's network topology?

    The network topology is the structure of your client's network, and it has to be taken into account before beginning a network design project. Then the topology can be modified to suit current and future client n  FAQ

  • How will you protect your client's network?

    Learn why protecting your network is an essential part of good network design. Network protection goes beyond firewalls to include business rules, policies and procedures.  FAQ

  • Is the network design approved by the vendor?

    Learn why it's important that your network design be vendor-approved. The reasons include, but aren't limited to, vendor support.  FAQ

  • What are the physical network considerations?

    The physical network, including the network cables, is an important part of any network design project. Learn best practices for making sure the physical network is properly configured and the WANs and LANs are able to support the business needs of y...  FAQ

  • What routing protocols will you use in a network design project?

    OSPF and EIGRP are popular routing protocols and both can play a role in network design projects. Learn the differences between OSPF and EIGRP routing protocols and why each one brings benefits to your network design.  FAQ

  • What is the purpose of the network being designed?

    Before beginning any network infrastructure design project for a client, the first question to ask is what the purpose of the network is. Knowing the answer to this question is vital as you scope out the project.  FAQ

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  • Router and switch upgrades: Five reasons your customer should invest

    Mid recession, customers are avoiding investment in even basic router and switch upgrades, but one surefire way to convince them is long-term savings that will outweigh investment.  Tip

  • Introduction to network centralization and decentralization

    Network centralization is an attempt to improve efficiency by taking advantage of potential economies of scale. Decentralization is an attempt to improve speed and flexibility by reorganizing networks to increase local control and execution of a serv...  Tip

  • Q&A: The art of cost-effective network systems design

    Learn best practices for cost-effective network systems design that ensures performance, scalability, redundancy and security. Discover the role played by virtualization and the importance of network security.  Tip

  • Tips for designing a low-cost network

    To maintain a competitive edge, VARs need to drive costs of networks down. Learn how to design a low-cost network by lowering labor costs, using WAN optimization controllers, using cheap hardware and more.  Tip

  • Network Consultants Handbook: Frame relay traffic shaping

    In Chapter 15 of the Network Consultants Handbook, author Matthew Castelli discusses best practices for managing a client's network traffic through frame relay traffic shaping, which is useful for controlling network bandwidth and balancing servers w...  Tip

  • The blade server market outlook for networking resellers

    Successful networks revolve around the servers that carry them. All channel professionals should have an understanding of this important aspect of their customers' IT requirements and what it means to them as a tool for streamlining the administratio...  Tip

  • Formulating a scalable IP addressing plan

    A scalable IP addressing plan will support your customer's network as it grows. This tip explains how to use variable-length subnet masking and route summarization to create a scalable IP addressing plan.  Tip

  • Achieving network design objectives

    The network design process should be driven by a set of objectives. This tip helps value-added resellers (VARs) and networking consultants set and achieve objectives when designing IP-based networks.  Tip

  • Network design principles

    Adhering to key principles can save value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators from making easily avoidable mistakes when designing their customers' IP-based networks.  Tip

  • Designing a campus LAN

    This tip explores the issues encountered with campus LAN design, including the techniques for ensuring a scalable and resilient campus network design.  Tip

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  • What role does the network have in the future data center?

    The future data center will be driven by the network. Learn how technologies such as iSCSI and virtualization will provide additional opportunities for network service providers as they drive the creation of future data centers.  Ask the Expert

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These tips and best practices on how to design a low-cost IP network help consultants, service providers and systems integrators implement LAN design requirements that save customers money. Also learn low-cost network design principles for cost-effective campus local area networks (LANs) and wide area networks (WANs), and get answers on network centralization and decentralization.